Another day or two

I don't have a whole lot to say. Watched Burn after Reading on Monday with Conor, Lou, Luke and Jason. Imy and Phil came round today.

I want to get some more Warhammer painting done. If I really give a shit I'm sure I could get a full set done before we go back to college. Do I care enough? Probably not.

I have an orthodontist appointment tomorrow, in case you were wondering. Which you weren't. What the hell kind of messed up train of thought leads you to 'I wonder if Ben has an orthodontist appointment tomorrow?

Ask me something of Formspring. I think that site's a good idea. http://www.formspring.me/Artemis150

Upcoming: Ice skating on Friday, Pizza hut on Saturday (I hope they have a vegan option), watching A Serious Man on Sunday, and hopefully Warhammer at some point too.

That's all for now.

Hugs and kisses.

MATT

Matt went away on holiday again. I wish he'd stop doing that, it sucks for me. I hope he has a miserable time and never wants to go on holiday again.

Okay, that's a bit harsh.

I'll live.

He came round yesterday and we ended up staying up until half past four, which is always fun. Before that was town, and half a game of Warhammer at games workshop with a cheating little prick. I want to slam his little head onto the gaming table. We spent a good two hours complaining about him :L Also, Matt gained a stalker who followed him into the bathroom, which was funny :L

Taking this from Heena's blog (minus a few questions) for some reason which I can't quite fathom at the moment. Maybe it'll hit me whilst I'm answering/deleting the questions.

What was the first thing you thought of this morning?
'Why the fuck am I up so late? Oh yeah...''

I bet you're talking to someone right now aren't you?
I'm not talking to anyone, you lose.

Have you ever received a message that made you cry?
No

Do you know anyone who's been in jail?
Yes

What's for breakfast?
French stick, vegan butter, and jam

When did you last get frustrated with someone?
I can't remember

Is Google the best way to find information?
No

Who are most of the texts in your inbox from?
Probably Imy

Who was the last person you talked to on msn?
Joe

What would you rather be: a pirate? a wizard? or a vampire?
A Wizard

Do you ever get bored?
On occasion

Do you have alcohol in your house?
No

Has someone smacked your butt in the past week?
Not just in this last week, funnily enough.

What colour is your bra strap?
Pink

When you and your friends hang out, who plans everything?
I don't know, Conor just tells me what's happening a few minutes before I should be setting off.

Who's in your profile picture with you?
No-one

Would it hurt seeing someone kiss the last guy you kissed?
Not really

Who will you be with tomorrow?
Probably no-one

What kind of socks do you have on?
Inviso-socks. They don't exist.

What will you do Monday?
At a guess: paint Warhammer, go on Battlefield, go for a walk.

What would you do if you received a love letter?
Read it, laugh, try to figure out who it's from and why.

Have you ever finished a game of monopoly?
No

What are you doing after you finish this survey?
Going to sleep

Do you know how to drive?
Yes

When is the last time you wore a dress?
I'm wearing one now

Do you pay attention to calories on the back of boxes?
No

Are you wearing makeup?
Yes

Do you like mcdonalds?
No

Did you cry today?
No

Where were you at 8 this morning?
In bed

Do you like ferris wheels?
No

Did you see a boy last night that made you smile?
I did

How important is trust?
Trust is apathy

Where is your display picture taken?
My Facebook one was at Avenham, I think. My Live Messanger one was in my bedroom.

Do you have anyone blocked on msn?
No

Have you ever been caught using your phone at school?
No

Do you smile every day?
Yes

Want to see anyone right now?
Yes

You get kissed tonight?
No

Do you think things will change in the next three months?
No, I'm quite certain that for the next three months everything will remain in stasis.

Ever tackled someone to the ground?
Yes

Ever fell asleep on the couch with the opposite sex?
No

Do you love the last person you texted?
No

Are you vegetarian?
Yes

What's the last sporting event you watched?
I saw two cats fighting, that's gotta count.

What is the last non-alcoholic beverage you had?
Tea

Do you prefer pasta salad, or coleslaw?

I'm not sure what pasta salad is, and I don't know what coleslaw tastes like.

Could you go for the rest of your life without drinking alcohol?
I hope so

Whose bed were you on last?
Mine

Does anyone call you babe?
Heena does on occasion...

Do you believe exes can really ever be "just friends"?
Sure

Would you rather love one person or have many short relationships?
One person

Anyone said they want to be with you forever?
No

Is there a member of the opposite sex on your mind?
No

Do you have a member of the opposite sex you can tell everything to?
No

Do you think anyone has feelings for you?
No

Who was the last person you talked to before you went to bed last night?
Matt

Do you know anyone who would just drop everything to come see you?
I don't think so

Have you ever done something you told yourself you wouldn't do?
Probably

Is there someone you used to talk to everyday that you don't talk to at all?
Yes

Can you have more than one best friend?
Yes

Has anyone said they love you in the last week?
No

Who was the first person you talked to today?
Matt

Have you ever known someone that just creeped you out?
No, it takes quite a bit to 'just creep me out'

That justified my title, seeing as my most common answer was 'Matt'.

That will be all.

Halo Wars

Great game; I've been playing it for most of today. I also went to see 'Salt' toda, and would like to tell you about my experience.

I walked into the cinema fully expecting to see a shit action film with little to no plot, basic american characters, and ninety-five percent of the film length to be made up of action. However, I was thrilled to discover that the ceiling of the cinema had a very interesting pattern on it, which kept me well entertained throughout the film.

In all seriousness, I haven't seen as boring a film since 'Wolfman'. Action scene. Action scene. Oh look, she can pretty much fly at this point. Twenty people shooting at her and she doesn't get more than a graze, she must be incorporeal.

Who the hell writes the plot for that sort of film? Who manages to become a director when they can't make a plot less predictable than 'The Hungry Hungry Caterpillar'? I'm not exaggerating when I say that I could've told you every plot twist in that film after the first ten minutes. I don't know why I even agreed to see the damn thing - I knew it'd be a shit action film from the poster.

I would love to meet the director of that film and give him a good hard kick to the sarcophagus -Yes, the sarcophagus - for wasting my time. And wasting my time at the moment is quite a feat, seeing as I have very little to do.

I'd give this film 0/10, but I don't feel it makes the point well enough. I'm giving it -10/10 I would like to claim back 10 points from this film. I would like to see a film worth giving 10/10 in order to make up for this film.

Now, as for the ceiling pattern, that deserved 0/10. That was a neutral ceiling pattern. I may be misportraying it by calling it a pattern, seeing as it was a blanc white ceiling. However, it certainly deserves 0/10. Whoever directed that ceiling owes me nothing.

Anyway, I'm quite done ranting about that film now.

Take toast out, try again.

Ten things you want to say to ten different people

1) Hi

2) Hi

3) Hi

4) Hi

5) Hi

6) Hi

7) Hi

8) Hi

9) Hi

10) Hi

I suppose I may as well do a blog post now I'm at it.

Today! Fleas. Lots of fucking fleas. I may be a vegan, but that doesn't mean I won't kill the little blood-sucking fuckers.

Secondly, I went to the orthodontists. As you may remember, my old one fled the country [almost certainly because of me]. My new one's a lovely little woman who doesn't shout and isn't a blatant red-faced drunk. She took my braces away to be repaired and replaced. However, this revealed that I have chipped a tooth, which is annoying. Ah well, naught to be done about it now.

Is that all I have to say?

Shit, that's a fairly major topic I've not mentioned; results. It should be good for the fact that I get to see people, and probably bad for the inevitable few people who are crying because they did badly. Ah well, see how it goes.

Gotta love that I'm more worried about other people's results than my own, because of how they affect me by proxy. My results don't matter half as much to me - I can just re-sit if I've done badly. I'm dropping chemistry and I'm confident about Maths, so I can't have that many to re-sit.

However, I don't know what to say when people are crying about results. I can only repeat 'It's fine, you can just re-sit!' over and over and over again. People seem to care about results far too much. Not that they're not important, it's just that worrying won't help at all. It's not worth doing.

Also, I may re-do the ten things thing at some point in a more serious way. Could be a laugh. Could be tragic. Let's not live in conditionals.

Erm erm erm... Nope, that's everything covered.

Onwards and upwards.

See you tomorrow.

The meaning behind your blog name

"Down the Rabbit Hole" is a reference to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. It's basically implying that everything's quite insane; a belief that I hold intermittently.

That probably didn't make sense, but that fact in itself helps my point.

Went out for a social gathering with people to whom I am acquainted. It were a right wriggle giggle.

That sort of thing needs to become far more frequent.

I need more DVDs to watch. I watched Dog Day Afternoon, which was fantastic, and now I've run out of decent films to watch. I'll ask my mum, she'll be able to recommend something.

I haven't got much else to say. Just a few thanks':

Thanks to Imy for my bracelet :D I'm really happy with it :)

Thanks to Phil for ruining my whole outlook on the world. Okay, not ruining, questioning is more like it. I'll think it through a little and get back to you :L

Thanks to Conor, for involuntarily volunteering to be my third thank.

I suppose that's about it.

See you on results day.

The meaning behind your blog name

"Down the Rabbit Hole" is a reference to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. It's basically implying that everything's quite insane; a belief that I hold intermittently.

That probably didn't make sense, but that fact in itself helps my point.

Went out for a social gathering with people to whom I am acquainted. It were a right wriggle giggle.

That sort of thing needs to become far more frequent.

I need more DVDs to watch. I watched Dog Day Afternoon, which was fantastic, and now I've run out of decent films to watch. I'll ask my mum, she'll be able to recommend something.

I haven't got much else to say. Just a few thanks':

Thanks to Imy for my bracelet :D I'm really happy with it :)

Thanks to Phil for ruining my whole outlook on the world. Okay, not ruining, questioning is more like it. I'll think it through a little and get back to you :L

Thanks to Conor, for involuntarily volunteering to be my third thank.

I suppose that's about it.

See you on results day.

A recent picture of you and 5 random facts about yourself.

I'm not doing the challenge, but I'm going to answer some of these because I have nothing better to do.

Random facts, hmm:

-I don't believe in 'random', because there's a pattern to everything and a reason for everything. For example, I only thought of this fact because I saw the word 'random'. [I suppose if you feel like being awkward you could argue that something being random or not is a matter of perspective, but you get my point (probably)].

-I've spent nearly two hundred pounds on Warhammer.

-I love cycling and walking.

-I tend to avoid wearing socks and shoes whenever it's convenient.

-I will always have music playing from speakers (as opposed to headphones) if it's an option. I just prefer the sound to be in the room.

Anywho, Matt came round yesterday to play some Warhammer. I lost, twice D= However, I have been planning and shall win next time (I reckon). We watched Reservoir Dogs [amazingly awesome film], and stayed up until three. God I love days like that.

Watched The Last Airbender today. God damn it's an awful film. It may have been quite good, if not for the acting to rival the first Harry Potter film. It was so bad, and their pronunciation was so damn annoying, it was just distracting.

When will my last poster arrive, damnit!

Ah well, the sun's out, and I'll try to make sure I don't sit at home all day tomorrow.

Posters

Only the DeathNote one to go, now.
YES! I just fixed my END key.
I'm going to express again how happy I am with my new room. It could do with some re-painting where there's a massive black thing on the roof and where there's coffee stains on the wall.
Yeah, on the wall. Our neighbours were having a marital dispute and the guy was shouting, so I grabbed the nearest cup and listened in. Kept me entertained for a couple of hours with his 'I'M NOBODY' and shit like that. Other peoples' lives falling apart can be so amusing...
Back to my room, there's only the matter of the pile of crap at the end of my bed that isn't mine. Can't sort it out until my mum's at home, so I can ask her to move her stuff. However, my mum's never at home; so it ain't moving for a while.
I'll explain my current predicament. I'm supposed to be in town at one o'clock. This means setting off at twenty past twelve(ish). Which is an hour from now. I'm ready to set off.
You can probably guess what happened.
Yesterday, I made the biggest house of cards I've ever made. In case you haven't seen:

Killed some time.

I filmed myself making it, but the video was fifteen minutes long, and 15.8 gigs. I have no idea why it was such a large file, but y'know.

Well, this blog post successfully killed ten minutes. Bye

My room

Two of the posters arrived; one of which is far bigger than I imagined! I'm well happy with them. I've also got a couple of game posters, a couple of games, and several Gameboy games attached to my walls and ceiling. Couple more posters and a tidy-up, and I'll have a more-than-liveable room.

Also, my 'END' button's broken D=. I like that button, too.

So, oversized picture of Audrey Tautou aside, what's happened with Ben of recent?

No, I don't particularly care either.

'Ben, stop doing posts where you just say that people don't care what you've been doing and write something interesting.'

'No, fuck you.'

Also, Catch-22 just gets better and better. Makes me laugh so much.

Speaking of laughing, I'd like to thank Hannah for this:

Blu-tac

No, Ben. No-one really wants to read a detailed rendition of your day.

I bought blu-tac, attempted watercolour painting, Blu-tacked some stuff to my walls and ceiling, and am well happy with my room now. It's only gonna get better when those posters arrive, too.

Sherlock is awesome.

That's all I've got.

Mad World

Watched Donnie Darko yesterday and decided that I love that song quite a lot.

I'm currently in a great mood, because this evening has gone so well. However, for chronology's sake, I shall start with yesterday. I've just noticed I'm about to repeat myself a bit, but y'know.

Getting beaten at Mario Kart, playing twister, and getting my nails painted. Saturday morning entailed none of these things. Saturday evening noted this fact, and took it upon itself to make sure all of these things were included in its agenda.

This morning decided that I have been far too dry for far too extended a period, so it sent me out for a walk in the rain. This amused it so much that it decided to make me quite far away from home before it made me realise that my iPod was getting wet, and so I had to go home. Of course, my iPod still had the walk home to survive. Don't worry, it's okay now [in case you were wondering].

Got in, got changed, painted for a bit. I then played Mass Effect 2, but I've already completed it and got bored by the starting cut-scenes [I still remember them from six days ago, so there didn't seem a whole lot of point in watching them].

So I tried Final Fantasy X. Many people will probably want my throats for this little review, but it's fucking awful. It's like an average anime series with annoying american dubs and a mini-game added on.

After that, I bought some posters. I am well pleased. I would show you what they are, but as Conor has told me blogger's mother is being a whore. Subsequently, I cannot upload images. Here's some URLs, to compensate.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B000OQOOFC/ref=oss_product

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B002O0X66Y/ref=oss_product

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B001VC4SPY/ref=oss_product

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B000PYQOJC/ref=oss_product

I also have a map of Cyrodiil that came with Oblivion, so I'll put that up too (Looks like this http://oogoo.eu/images/cyrodiil.jpg). Damn I'm cool.

I ended up spending £35 on posters, but it'll be worth it when I finally have something to make this room my own.

On a quick final note, this evening wanted to apologise for yesterday evening. It had my mum bake two vegan chocolate and orange cakes, and assured me not all evenings are like Saturday, and that some of them are really nice time periods when you get to know them.

Dogville

You need to watch Dogville. It's one of the greatest films of all time.
Last night I was at Charlotte's, and it was by far the most fun I've had all week. Thanks for that ^^.
As for the rest of the week, I've got Richard's on Wednesday evening, a driving lesson on Thursday morning, and that's about it. The times in between will be [probably] spent partially on the XBox (second play-through of Mass Effect 2), partially watching films, partially reading, and [hopefully] partially revising for my driving theory test.
For now, I'm tired. I'll probably watch a film and then go to bed.

Also, here's something to think about:

Due to extensive research done by the University of Pittsburgh, diamond has been confirmed as the hardest metal known to man. The research is as follows. Pocket-protected scientists built a wall of iron and crashed a diamond car into it at 400 miles per hour, and the car was unharmed. They then built a wall out of diamond and crashed a car made of iron moving at 400 miles an hour into the wall, and the wall came out fine. They then crashed a diamond car made of 400 miles per hour into a wall, and there were no survivors. They crashed 400 miles per hour into a diamond traveling at iron car. Western New York was powerless for hours. They rammed a wall of metal into a 400 mile per hour made of diamond, and the resulting explosion shifted the earth's orbit 400 million miles away from the sun, saving the earth from a meteor the size of a small Washington suburb that was hurtling towards mid-western Prussia at 400 billion miles per hour. They shot a diamond made of iron at a car moving at 400 walls per hour, and as a result caused two wayward airplanes to lose track of their bearings, and make a fatal crash with two buildings in downtown New York. They spun 400 miles at diamond into iron per wall. The results were inconclusive. Finally, they placed 400 diamonds per hour in front of a car made of wall traveling at miles per iron, and the result proved without a doubt that diamonds were the hardest metal of all time, if not just the hardest metal known to man

Bad mood

Not me this time, everyone else in the house is in a damn bad mood. My mum says she's just tired and Jamie has toothache. It sucks. I'm really starting to miss some of my friends at this point, too. I'm sick of my own company. I'm sick of painting and playing on the XBox, I'm sick of sitting in the same place for hours because there's nowhere else to go, and I'm sick of playing guitar.

Okay, so now I'm in a bit of a bad mood. Hardly my fault, everyone around me's being so grumpy

It shall all change tomorrow, though, because I'm going out! I would like to take this opportunity to thank Charlotte for inviting me to hers. I'm sick of this damn house now. I'm sick of the damn cats, too. They won't leave me alone.

I'll need to get something planned beyond tomorrow, too. I don't want to spend another week alone.

I'll see what I can do about that.

Hail to the Thief

No, Ben. Don't just post a title without a post.

I haven't heard Hail to the Thief in ages. It's an album by Radiohead, by the way. Now, before you start mentally sighing and making arbitrary mental comments on me only listening to Radiohead, I'd like to let you know that I haven't been listening to them much of recent. It's been Sigur Ros and Lynyrd Skynyrd for a couple of weeks.

I'm looking forwards to Saturday, which is my only planned social contact for the rest of the holiday. I'm sure something else will happen once everyone's back from various countries. Maybe I'll plan something for once.

As a wise man once said to me: see you Sunday.

New hobby

I've found out how to do this sign: |. I've wanted to know that for fucking ages, and I just found out when trying to write what I originally found.

Now, what I was originally trying to say: I've found a new hobby. What I do is go outside, pick a direction, and get lost. I then wander around for a while [with music on, obviously], and see how lost I can get before stumbling onto Liverpool road, at which point I am no longer lost. I then repeat the process until I find myself near my house and feel that I have been lost for a sufficient amount of time.

It's a much better way to spend a couple of hours than sitting on the XBox, and I'd definitely recommend it. Although I wouldn't do it at night, obviously, what with all the rapists.

Speaking of rape, I just heard a small girl screaming quite a lot. Nope, not some weird joke, I just heard it. Probably some game or something.

That's fine, laptop. Restart whenever you'd like. Not like I'm doing something or anything.

Oh, here's something I haven't checked since we moved:

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That probably worked. The broadband speed's barely changed since we moved.

Also, hope everyone's having/has had fun on holiday.

Publishing the post helps...

He's back...

He's finally back...

We have waited

And waited

And Matt's back from France!

I'd like to point out that the final 'goodbye' is not in any way serious, I find it funny because it's lame.

Watched 'The Good, The Bad, And the Ugly' before, and that film has it's moments.

Also, the sky outside is very cool right now.

Also, I've had far too much cake today, and I'ma have some more soon. Such an act requites copious volumes of tea.

I'ma watch the rest of Sherlock, methinks.

Need vegan cake recipe [ours keep failing]. Anyone who can help; please do.

Catch-22 is a fucking fantastic book, you must read it.

Keep it real.

First post using only my right hand

My left's far too busy holding my laptop because I'm too lazy to sit up.

Today, I've achieved absolutely nothing. I watched T.V. at my dad's, and watched some Top Gear on IPlayer. I'll paint after tea to make up for it.

I've got nothing else to say about nothing.